Rescue Party
- by Arthur C. Clarke
- Novelette
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Time Phenomena
- English
- “Rescue Party” by Arthur C. Clarke, Astounding Science Fiction, May 1946.
Only a smidgen of unimportant time phenomena in the first paragraph of this ominous first contact story.
—Michael Main
But Alveron and his kind had been lords of the Universe since the dawn of history, since that far distant age when the Time Barrier had been folded round the cosmos by the unknown powers that lay beyond the Beginning.
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- Unspecified Future Year: no earlier than 2124 AD based on the 1974 painting that had been hanging at least 150 years
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- “Rescue Party” by Arthur C. Clarke, Astounding Science Fiction, May 1946.
- audio reading.
“Rescue Party” by Arthur C. Clarke, Escape Pod #400, 18 June 2013 [podcast] [Accessed at Escape Pod[/url on 24 May 2022].
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- Dutch.
“Rettungsexpedition” by Arthur C. Clarke, in Een nieuwe dageraad en andere verhalen (Elsevier, 1979). - French.
“Expédition de secours” by Arthur C. Clarke, in Demain, moisson d'étoiles (Denoël, 1960). - French.
“Expédition de secours” by Arthur C. Clarke, in Avant l’Eden (J’ai Lu, April 1978). - German.
“Rettungsexpedition” by Arthur C. Clarke, Utopia Science Fiction Magazin #9, December 1957. - German: alternative title of “Rettungsexpedition” (1957).
“Die Retter” by Arthur C. Clarke, in Science-Fiction Stories 28, edited by Donald Wollheim (Ullstein, September 1973. - German.
“Rettungsexpedition” by Arthur C. Clarke, in Ein Treffen mit Medusa (Bastei Lübbe, September 1986). - Italian.
“Operazione di salvataggio” by Arthur C. Clarke, Scienza Fantastica #1, April 1952. - Italian.
“Spedizione di soccorso” by Arthur C. Clarke, Urania #444, 11 September 1966. - Italian.
“Spedizione di soccorso” by Arthur C. Clarke, Urania #1442, 30 June 2002. - Japanese.
“太陽系最後の日,” as by A・C・クラーク, S-Fマガジン, February 1960. - Portuguese.
“Missão de salvamento” by Arthur C. Clarke, in Antologia cósmica, edited by Fausto Cunha (Francisco Alves, 1981). - Portuguese.
“Grupo de Salvamento” by Arthur C. Clarke, in [Em Busca do Futuro[/em] (Edições 70, 1990).
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